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No. 362,000. Patented Apr. 26, 1887.

INVENTOR ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. GUBELMANN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JACOB HUNT, OF SAME PLACE.

CUFF-RETAINER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,000, dated April 26, 1887.

Application filed July 15, 1886. Serial No. 208,053. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. GUBEL- MANN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cuff-Retainers, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a face view of a cuffretainer embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 represents a central transverse section thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists of a cuff retainer formed of a plate with struck-up ends forming eyes or supports for prongs, which engage with the sleeve of the outer garment, and thus prevent the cuff from displacement, the construction being hereinafter fully set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a plate, to which is attached the shank B and head 0, after the manner of a sleeve-button.

On the face of the plate A are two prongs, D, which are parallel or about parallel with the plate A, project in opposite directions from the end portions of said plate, and are attached thereto, said portions being thrown up, so that the prongs are set out from the main portion of the plate.

It will be seen that when the head 0 is buttoned to a cuff the prongs D may be inserted into the lining or fabric of the surrounding sleeve, thus connecting the cuff and sleeve and preventing displacement of the cuff from the arm or wrist of the wearer.

When the cuff is to be removed, the sleeve is so manipulated that it is disengaged from the prongs D, and thus the retainer and sleeve are disconnected, permitting the cuff to be removed from the arm or wrist and the retainer unbuttoned from the cuff.

The prongs D may be of the form of needles or pins, which are secured to the end portions of the plate A. In Fig. l the prongs are integral with said end portions of the plate and punched out of the main portion of the same, this being an inexpensive, strong, and desirable construction.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I 1. An improved cuff'retainer formed of a plate, a button on the back of said plate, and prongs projecting in opposite directions from supports formed of struck-up portions on the face of said plate, substantially as described.

2. An improved cuff-retainer consisting of the plate A, provided with a button, the said plate having struck-up portions, from which project the prongs D, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

WM. S. GUBELMANN.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. \VI DERsI-IEIM, A. P. GRANT. 

